According to the latest reports by the USGS, US Geological Survey, an earthquake measuring 6.4 has struck off the coast of the Philippines. The tremor was registered at 06:19 UTC (9:19 Moscow time). There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake, which hit at a depth of 30 km (18 miles), […]
About 39 percent of Indonesian university students have been exposed to radical Islamic ideology, Suhardi Alius, the head of Indonesia’s National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), told BenarNews. The counter-terror chief confirmed a figure given April 28 by Budi Gunawan, the head of Indonesia’s National Intelligence Agency (BIN), during a lecture to a college seminar in Semarang, […]
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have placed families who lost children in the devastating earthquake of 2008 under house arrest ahead of the 10th anniversary of the tragedy on May 12. More than 80,000 people, thousands of them schoolchildren, died in the quake that devastated mountainous regions of Sichuan, flattening the majority […]
A total of 64 passengers aboard the Flying Dinosaur roller coaster at Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan were left hanging ‒ literally ‒ for roughly two hours on Tuesday after the ride’s emergency stop was activated by operators. According to local media reports, the ride was halted around 4:45 p.m. local time after the emergency system […]
Israel has put its forces on alert mainly on the northern front with Syria and Lebanon fearing a possible Iranian attack in revenge for the Israeli bombing of the Iranian drone base in Syria where several senior commanders were killed, Arabi21.com reported on Sunday. Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that the Israeli army commissioned a […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday night that intelligence revealed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day is authentic and does show that Iran was pursuing a secret nuclear program in violation of international accords. On Monday, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a televised speech said that Israel uncovered […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Police in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad said early Monday that an American diplomat had been taken into custody after his car hit and injured two motorcyclists. Senior police official Najeeb ur Rehman told the media that the injured who had been sent to a local hospital were in stable condition, Xinhua […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Iraqi authorities have arrested an influential leader of the Islamic State (Daesh) group in the city of Mosul in the north of the country, local media reported Saturday, April 28 citing its sources. The terrorist has been identified as Ebrahim Mesha’al Marei, and arrested due to the presence of precise intelligence information, […]
